The extremists seemed to be active all around the country earlier this week: in Caversham (near Reading) police found an incendiary device in the driveway of a women who runs a small courier service for the pharmaceutical industry. According to the BBC, a 39-year old man was arrested in the vicinity after discarding another crude incendiary in a nearby garden, and four others are also in custody. Responsibility for the attempted firebombing was later claimed by the ALF.

Animal rights extremists are behind vandalism at a greyhound track in Scotland at the weekend which caused more than £10,000 worth of damage. Vehicles were smashed, tyres slashed, every electrical cable was cut and the stadium was covered in graffiti.

An attempted liberation took place in Auchtermuchty in Scotland, on a free-range, non-intensive deer farm. The zealots wrote “This is a wildlife prison” on the roadways and destroyed the fencing. This attack would be amusing if it wasn’t for the costs to replace the fencing, which are considerable. Apparently (see, for instance, Oxford Gossip), none of the “imprisoned” deer even tried to escape. The animals stayed contentedly where they were. With all that free food and space to roam, more a wildlife paradise than a “prison”, it seems.